1271721 - Update messaging and timing for Sync status bar notification

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox for iOS :: General, defect)

Description

[Stephan Leroux [:sleroux]]

Follow up to bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1223162

The current status bar displaying the syncing notification any time the application goes into syncing mode by listening to the ProfileDidBegin/FinishSyncing NSNotifications. We don't want to display this all the time since sync should appear as a transparent activity except for a few instances:

1. User has just signed in. Show special messaging indicating a sync will take a longer time (Your first sync may take a while…). :tecgirl, should this only display for a few seconds then disappear? How long should the notification appear for?

2. User manually initiates a sync (Syncing) :tecgirl, do we still want to do this?

3. Temporarily display a error status message is a sync has failed. Possible error messaging:

“Firefox is unable to sync”
“Firefox is experiencing issues”
“Updating bookmarks is currently disabled”
“Firefox is unable to sync your bookmarks at this time”
“Sync currently unavailable”
“Bookmark sync currently unavailable”
“Firefox Sync is unavailable”
“Sync failed”

According to the docs these strings are WIP. I think might need to shorten some of them since they won't fit in the status bar area - especially for other locales.

Comment 1

[Robin Andersen [:tecgirl]]

(In reply to Stephan Leroux [:sleroux] from comment #0)
> Follow up to bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1223162
> 
> The current status bar displaying the syncing notification any time the
> application goes into syncing mode by listening to the
> ProfileDidBegin/FinishSyncing NSNotifications. We don't want to display this
> all the time since sync should appear as a transparent activity except for a
> few instances:
> 
> 1. User has just signed in. Show special messaging indicating a sync will
> take a longer time (Your first sync may take a while…). :tecgirl, should
> this only display for a few seconds then disappear? How long should the
> notification appear for?
> 

4 seconds seems comfortable

> 2. User manually initiates a sync (Syncing) :tecgirl, do we still want to do
> this?
> 

Yes, a manual option should still be available


> 3. Temporarily display a error status message is a sync has failed. Possible
> error messaging:
> 
> “Firefox is unable to sync”
> “Firefox is experiencing issues”
> “Updating bookmarks is currently disabled”
> “Firefox is unable to sync your bookmarks at this time”
> “Sync currently unavailable”
> “Bookmark sync currently unavailable”
> “Firefox Sync is unavailable”
> “Sync failed”
> 
> According to the docs these strings are WIP. I think might need to shorten
> some of them since they won't fit in the status bar area - especially for
> other locales.


Yes, these strings are a WIP. Let's simplify!

"Sync failed"

^ + make the statusbar tappable to take the user to Settings

Comment 2

[Stephan Leroux [:sleroux]]

> Yes, a manual option should still be available

When syncing manually do we want to display 'Syncing...' for the duration of the sync, for the 4 seconds as well, or not at all?

Comment 3

[Robin Andersen [:tecgirl]]

(In reply to Stephan Leroux [:sleroux] from comment #2)
> > Yes, a manual option should still be available
> 
> When syncing manually do we want to display 'Syncing...' for the duration of
> the sync, for the 4 seconds as well, or not at all?

4 seconds

Comment 4

[Stephan Leroux [:sleroux]]

Attachment: Link to Github pull-request: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios/pull/1821#attch-to-bugzilla

Comment 6

[Robin Andersen [:tecgirl]]

Comment on attachment 8753363 [details]
Link to Github pull-request: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios/pull/1821#attch-to-bugzilla

Lookin' good!

Comment 7

[Stephan Leroux [:sleroux]]

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